Chapter 5:- People Who Care Part 2

"Care is the greatest gift you can give someone. It is the gift of your time, your attention, and your love." - Unknown

(Timeskip few months before)

After the usual bullying at school, and getting himself patched up.

Izuku was in no mood to go back home just yet and needed a bit of fresh air

So he just decided to wander around looking around the town, exploring things around him.

As he had no one else to roam around with and he had no privilege to do childish things other kids his age people would do.

That's when Izuku heard someone cry.

That's when he came across an empty park.

And thought it was coming from the park, so Izuku went towards the park and he wasn't wrong.

Izuku saw a small girl sitting on one of the swings in the park. She was crying and all alone.

When Izuku looked around him and the park he could not find a single soul around them, in fact it was way too quiet to the point that anyone can commit any sort of crime and they can get away feeling assured that no one would find out about them or what happened in this silent park.

And at this time of the day technically no one walks these roads unless a hero fights.

Coupled with the fact that there weren't any CCTVs around it made things even more dangerous.

It made his heart beat even faster.

He was taking every step carefully, staying vigilant as anything could happen.

As it wasn't a new thing for people to get kidnapped using small kids.

And so Izuku approached the little girl who was sitting all alone on the swing while crying.

Luckily there was no one around meaning that she was all alone, and was just lost.

"Are you okay?" Izuku asked.

The girl looked up at him. She had big, blue eyes that were filled with tears.

"No," she said. "I'm not okay."

"What's wrong?" Izuku asked.

"I'm lost," the girl said. "I got separated from the teacher and others, and I don't know how to get back to my school."

Izuku cast a reassuring smile towards her. "Don't worry," he said. "I will help you."

The girl stopped crying as her eyes were red from all the crying.

She sobbed as she asked me, "Really?"

"Of course, don't worry, I'll make sure you are reunited with your teacher," Izuku said once again as he cast a reassuring smile once again as his hands moved towards her small face and he used my thumbs to wipe off the tears on her face.

"Do you want water?" Izuku asked as he lifted her to his eye level placing his hand on her back as he gently caressed her back to calm her down.

She nodded as Izuku removed the water bottle from his backpack and he gave it to her.

After drinking water and making sure that she had calmed down, his hand was still caressing her back to calm her down.

Izuku gently asked her, "What's your name?"

Although with the patchwork Izuku had done to himself, he looked like some kind of delinquent or better said criminal, however, whether it was because she wanted to go home or was scared or the fact that she was just a 5 year old girl.

She didn't doubt Izuku at all, although it was good as it made it easier for him to help her reunite with her teacher.

'It seems I need to tell the teacher in charge to be more vigilant and careful with these small children as she is lucky that it was I who encountered her, not some villain, or else they might have kidnapped such a small child with relative ease.' thought Izuku to himself.

She said in a small meek yet cute tone, "I-I-I am Emi, Emi Yamamoto."

"Emi Chan don't worry, I'll make sure to send you back to your teacher," Izuku said with a smile as a small smile emerged on her face as she nodded her head.

Seeing the beautiful smile on little Emi's face was like magic, all the pain, sadness, and all sorts of negative emotions Izuku had locked deep inside his heart, all of that washed out of his face as if it never existed in the first place.

The cute smile and beautiful eyes along with a cute happy but meek emotion on her face, her smile, and her very existence were so contagious at that point to the fact that the hopes and embers of becoming a hero were slowly extinguishing with all the bullying and neglect.

But after meeting Emi, all those emotions washed out of him, it even re-ignited his passion to become a hero even if it was to protect such a small and cute 5 year old.

Izuku's face was determined as new embers far stronger than previous ones ignited within him to the point that his sole purpose, currently, was to make sure that Izuku just protected this girl and her smile.

And so began their search.

As Izuku took her to a more lively and fairly populated area of the town.

Apparently, she remembered her school's name and luckily Izuku had his phone with him so he was easily able to find the location.

Izuku even called the contact number mentioned but apparently, no one picked it up.

So using maps he started navigating toward her school.

That's when he saw a group of teachers and students looking for someone.

And that's when Emi jumped from his hands as she ran towards her classmates.

All of them sighed in relief as, if she hadn't been found it would affect their reputation greatly.

However, one teacher in particular, mostly in her early twenties with red flakes of hair along with white hair jumped to the conclusion thinking Izuku was a kidnapper trying to kidnap her, well given his appearance he can't say he disagreed, anyone in her place unaware of his history would think the same.

"Who are you, were you trying to kidnap Emi, and with how calm she was with you, it might be you having a quirk related to keeping your hostages calm right, making it easier for you to kidnap little girls you lolicon." Started speaking nonstop, and the teacher was like a speeding train only stopping to breathe once finished with her talking.

'Wow, If I said I was stunned it would be an understatement, I knew I looked shady and all but a kid stealing Lolicon and on top of that I have a quirk that helps me with it.' Thought Izuku

'I was not sure whether it was imagination or reality but I could hear all my injuries, broken bones, cuts, and bruises screaming in unison to the top of their lungs, 'Am I a joke to you?'' Izuku thought, as he wanted to scream.